Flexibility and constraint: Evolutionary remodeling of the sporulation initiation pathway in Firmicutes

• Philip Davidson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: FluNXT, Sanofi Pasteur, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9891-6732

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• Rory Eutsey,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Brendan Redler,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• N. Luisa Hiller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center of Excellence in Biofilm Research, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-1368

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• Michael T. Laub,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8288-7607

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• Dannie Durand

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: durand@cmu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3505-6640

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